🌊 Currents ⚡ Archipel Prompt #4 Self-Portrait Generator A self-portrait written through weather. 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/publish/post... #ArchipelCurrents #poetry

🤝 COMMUNITY “It goes beyond talking about writing to talking about living.” A reflection on mentorship, conversation, and the ways writing grows within community. 🔗 Read Isaiah Adepoju’s reflection on Archipel: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/2-craft-co... #poetrycommunity #mentorship #writers

🛠 CRAFT “Much of writing about joy seems to be about inhabiting that space of knowledge.” From DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju. 🔗 Read: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/2-craft-co... #poetry #literarymentorship #Currents #DEWScholarship

📖 New on #Archipel DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju reflects on grief, joy, and the conversations that shape a poet’s craft. 🔗 Read the reflection: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/2-craft-co... #poetry #Currents #DEWScholarship #LiteraryMentorship

From the Archipel Orbit: this week's final dispatch: @nadinearaksi.bsky.social series 12 Permission Slips I Needed in 2025 offers luminous reflections on rest, healing,and reclaiming herself after burnout. carawaterfall.substack.com/p/from-the-a...

📷 Residencies. Exhibitions. Festivals. Manuscripts. The daily labour behind the visible moment. Art doesn’t appear. It accumulates. @growmercy.bsky.social @nancychristie.bsky.social 📷 carawaterfall.substack.com/.../from-the.... #CreativeProcess #StudioLife #LiteraryCommunity #ArtPractice #Archipel

Books expanding their reach this month — from new editions to forthcoming releases. 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/from-the-a... #NewBooks #SmallPress #WritersCommunity #BookNews #IndependentPublishing #Archipel

Recognition across the #Archipel this month — prizes, lists, and milestones worth pausing for. @ZainabBobi @isjonespoetry @VictorIhechilu1 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/from-the-a... #LiteraryAwards #PoetryCommunity #IndependentPress #CreativeCommunity #Archipel

Some words don’t live in dictionaries. They live in people. 🌀 prompt 3 is open. 🌊 read / write with us: carawaterfall.substack.com/.../prompt-3.... #writingprompt #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #ambianceur #creativepractice #writerscircle #currents #archipel

My Ivorian driver’s license is valid for life. One of the few documents that assumes I’ll stay. 🌊 A Lifetime Ivorian Driver’s License 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/a-lifetime... #Longform #Currents #PersonalEssay #cotedivoire #abidjan

My driver’s test in Abidjan took place in an abandoned football field. A small story about language, permission, and the systems that decide when we belong. ✦ A Lifetime Ivorian Driver’s License 🌊 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/a-lifetime... #Abidjan #CotedIvoire #PersonalEssay #Currents #Archipel

“I feel a gravitational pull to art—” 🧲✨ Archipel #32: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-a... #PoetryQuote #CreativeLife #Archipel

Archipel #32: Sloan Asakura 🕯️ A conversation on art, ritual, and connection. 🔗https://carawaterfall.substack.com/p/32-sloan-asakura #Archipel #PoetryCommunity

On slowness. carawaterfall.substack.com/p/learning-a...

"Poetry is the only genre that understands my heart and translates my heartbeat onto the pages." 💓📝 🌊 Read more about Victor, the poet as archivist: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-... #currents #Archipel

"My work reflects the socio-political condition of Nigerians… and what we, as Igbos, are known for." 🇳🇬✊🏾 ~ Victor Unachukwu 🌿 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-... #currents #IgboPoet

🌊 "Archiving these stories for the next generation to read, for me, stands as a lasting legacy." 📚✨" 📚✨ Full profile: carawaterfall.substack.com/p/31-victor-... #currents #PoetryAsWitness

Côte d’Ivoire 3–0. Coup de marteau everywhere. I wrote about the noise, the joy, the elephant in the room. carawaterfall.substack.com/p/the-elepha...

🐘 CAN season. The elephant is back in the room. New on Archipel: writing from inside the noise. carawaterfall.substack.com/p/the-elepha... #AFCON2025 #CôtedIvoire #Abidjan #FootballCulture #WestAfrica #CulturalWriting

🌊 Craft is the work beneath the work. 🎨✨ DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju reflects on the lessons he's learning as he puts together his first creative writing workshop. 📝🔍 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/craft-comm... #PoetryCraft #Archipel #Currents 🌊

🌊 New on #Archipel: Craft · Community · Visibility A mentorship reflection centering the voice of DEW Scholar Isaiah Adepoju — on making the work, building community and learning how to be seen. 🔗 carawaterfall.substack.com/p/craft-comm... #poetry #mentorship #Currents #DEWScholar

Highlighting Groundwork 🩵📃 — the generative writing workshop co-founded by Elena Sénéchal-Becker & Knowah Holder. Writing toward new queer futures. ✨ More → carawaterfall.substack.com/p/30-elena-s... #Groundwork #QueerWriters #Archipel

New on #Archipel 🌿 A conversation with **Elena Sénéchal-Becker** ✨ on care, design, queer lineage, and writing as refuge. ✍️ Read → carawaterfall.substack.com/p/30-elena-s... #Currents #QueerWriters #WritingCommunity

🎭 “Binda turns everyday language into theatre — bold, absurd, brilliant.” Full feature ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq #BindaNgazolo #Nouchi #SlamIvoirien #Currents #Archipel

🎧 “Nash is cadence incarnate. She takes the mic and the room rearranges itself.” Full feature ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq #Nash #Nouchi #IvorianMusic #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel

⚡ “Nouchi at full voltage. Zero fear. 100% vision.” Full profile ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq #Suspect95 #Nouchi #RapIvoirien #Currents #Archipel

🗣 “My words are built to tear down walls.” — Henri-Michel Yéré See the bilingual feature ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq #HenriMichelYere #Nouchi #Poetry #Abidjan #Archipel #Currents

🍲 “Forty-eight hours without grub, and we could drop at any second.” — Kapegik, Mort Subite Full feature ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq ✨ All misfires belong to the translator; all brilliance to the author. #Kapegik #Nouchi #IvorianLiterature #Abidjan

🌆🗣️ New: Nouchi 101 A deep dive into Abidjan’s living language — a tongue shaped by the street, by history, by humor, by refusal. I also spotlight 5 artists who bend language toward something electric and alive. Full post ↓ 👉 tr.ee/77Qacq #Nouchi #CotedIvoire #UrbanPoetics #Archipel #LivingLanguages

🌿 New in #Archipel | #Currents 📣 Pamilerin Jacob’s chapbooks trace the interior shifts that shape a life into art. 🗺️🫶 Read Cordial With Disillusionment for free & you can also donate to a stellar poet, editor & community builder! 🎁🇳🇬 tr.ee/MhsaRw 🔗 #NigerianPoetry #NigerianPoet 🌱